The Irish R.M.

The Irish R.M. [Registered Magistrate] is a hilarious collection of fiction stories written by E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross (they're cousins). My mother brought it back for me when she went to Ireland about 15 years ago, and I'm just now getting around to reading (and finishing) it. I have loved it. An English Registered Magistrate goes to Ireland to live, and this book is a collection of the hilarious predicaments he finds himself in, mostly because he's English and everyone else is Irish.
In fact, Marcee, you'd probably love this book because of the Irish things going on in it.

Anyway, as a work of grand literature, this is probably somewhere around a 5. As a work of I'm so glad I've read this literature, definitely a 9 or 10.

Persuasion

Have any of you ever read Persuasion, by Jane Austen? I don't think I would have appreciated it 10 years ago. But now that I'm getting older, I have reread it. I think it is truly beautiful. The pain and anguish of loving for 8 years, "loving when all hope is gone." It's so much more real than the other books.
However, the films aren't quite as good. I wish I could take a part from the '70s and add it to the one from the '90s with a few scenes from the '00s. Who knows.... Maybe someone will remake it in 15 years.

PS Where did all the other posts go?